Changed Name Contemplated
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) SAIGON, May 14. North Vietnam intends to change the name of Saigon to “Ho Chi Minh” if they succeed in taking it over, according to the diary of a dead North Vietnamese Army soldier. The Saigon “Daily News,” reporting this today, said the soldier, Huynh Trung Nghia, who acted as information chief of the North Vietnamese Army’s 9th Division, said in his diary he intended to celebrate his wedding in “Ho Chi Minh” after the latest Communist offensive.
The newspaper said the diarist learned of his fiancee’s death when he reached the outskirts of Saigon, and was himself killed two days later, near Cholon, Saigon’s Chinese quarter.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31680, 16 May 1968, Page 13
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111Changed Name Contemplated Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31680, 16 May 1968, Page 13
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